Smartphones are not a tool to manipulate and spy on tge population.
Oh boy, wait until you learn about Google-Analytics on Android phones, or how they predict (or lets say know) where traffic jams are. Does the Section 702 of the USA ring a bell?
They certainly started as a good idea, but they evolved into a widely used surveillance tool for companies and governments across the world.
True, but you can easily switch to Flatpaks and use them instead.
I think to start, Mint or Ubuntu is a good choice, it has support for most hardware and will probably run on whatever you install it.
Also something that I think most new Linux users should focus on; instead of distro pick the desktop environment (DE). As a beginner it does not really matter if you use, lets say, a Debian- or Fedora-based distro. Pick a DE that looks pleasing to you maybe GNOME or KDE and take the installation with that DE. Maybe do not start with Arch or Gentoo as they are for more experienced users that already have some Linux experience.
Distros will be way more interesting and important when you got a hold of Linux and you want to explore the differences of them.
Last tip: Make a separated /home directory, so when you want to change to a new distro you do not have to delete all your files and start over with an empty machine.
I wish you a good start into Linux and do not hesitate to ask questions if they arise!
Definitely not.
I think money can and will never play down the feeling of working for something/someone that is against your principles and ideology. Every day you get up to work, while drinking your morning coffee you will have thoughts and hate about the place you will start working after commuting.
And do not forget, you will mostly have friends with similar ideology, they will disapprove of this too. Good friends will stay nonetheless but discussions will arise portably more often than you’d like about your choosing a workplace that is against all you believe in.
When you just go and work wherever because the pay is good, then your ideology is not more than a façade you hold up for yourself.
I'm very curious about it, as a Firefox user I will not need it, but will definitely try it out.
At the moment I do not see the need for yet another browser but everything that gives alternatives to Chrome is welcome. As far as I remember it does not use Chrome as its base, just the Blink-Engine to display elements (will fact check that when I got time).
I have Trackmania Stadium for that. Going into a full speed server (Only need to steer left or right while constantly press forward) and put some music up.
The flow of the race tracks together with the music is very nice and because no speed control is needed, no need to get into the physics and tracks to enjoy the game.
I can recommend to get into Trackmania when you have more time, the feeling of mastering a hard track is marvellous, but just speeding around is also fun as hell.
The government’s use of Section 702 is subject to extensive and rigorous oversight by all branches of government. All of these reviews have universally concluded that the government is properly using this authority to conduct foreign intelligence collection.
It is from a presentation to justify section 702, the law that NSA uses to spy on any person world wide. Snowden leakes showed the reach of the surveillance under Section 702.
If I remember correctly they get most of the funding from RedHat and are therefore kind of dependend on RH. But I do not know the exact dependencies of the project.
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Yes, it seems to be a proposal but they look pretty clear on this decision.
As far as I can see, there are already companies switching to Rocky Linux or OpenSUSE, a few sysads I know are in the process of doing so as we speak. Time will tell.
I just hope that this is not the start of other open source enterprises closing the source code to generate more short term money.
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Thank you for your contribution to our community! Interesting to see a follow up, I too was collecting signatures and spreading the word for the referendum.
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